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New Yorkers Win Frack Fight at Local Level
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Local residents and elected leaders in Dryden, N.Y. are celebrating victory in a closely watched case over local fracking bans. A state appeals court ruled in favor of the towns of Dryden and Middl...
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May.7.2013
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EPA lowered estimates of methane leaks during natural gas production
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The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a deb...
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Apr.30.2013
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It’s a gas! (or coal or oil)
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China and other rapidly developing nations are leading the greenhouse gas emissions race. The US and Europe, for different reasons, are slowing their methane and carbon dioxide production, as with ...
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Apr.30.2013
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National Parks in Peril from Fracking
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As the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) updates rules for oil and gas drilling on federal land, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) released yesterda...
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Apr.30.2013
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New Technology Records Baseline Methane Emissions Prior to Construction of Fracking Infrastructure
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Many know fracking’s iconic image: a faucet spewing flaming water, but fewer realize that it’s largely methane, the main constituent of natural gas, burning. Since 90 percent of natural gas is meth...
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Mar.25.2013
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Startup turning natural gas glut into gasoline
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America is awash in natural gas, thanks to the controversial practice of fracking. Now a San Francisco startup company, Siluria Technologies, has a new way to turn that gas into chemicals, jet fuel...
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Mar.12.2013
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Why the fracking boom may actually be an economic bubble
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Fracking proponents like to use an evocative economic metaphor in talking about their industry: boom. The natural gas boom. Drilling is exploding in North Dakota and Texas and Pennsylvania. Only fi...
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Feb.21.2013
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Groundbreaking Reports Show Fracking is a Risky Short-Term Bubble
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Energy Policy Forum and Post Carbon Institute have released two groundbreaking reports that belie energy industry claims of U.S. energy independence as a result of newly accessible shale gas and sh...
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Feb.20.2013
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N.Y. Town Is Sued Over Ban on Fracking Discussion
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Environmental advocates filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against a small town in Broome County, N.Y., whose board of supervisors has blocked discussion of fracking at public meetings. The Natural Resourc...
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Feb.14.2013
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Colorado governor participated in ‘ritual-like’ drinking of fracking fluid
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Personally, we’d never drink from a cup that Halliburton handed us. It seems like it would be likely to contain crude oil or crushed babies or something, and would probably seal us in a blood pact ...
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Feb.14.2013
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Venezuela devaluation to cost Halliburton $30M
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Halliburton Co., the world’s second-largest oilfield services, said it will take a $30 million charge related to Venezuela devaluing its currency. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commi...
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Feb.13.2013
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New York Hires Fracking Geologist With Ties to Industry
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New York’s study of potential links between hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes may be tainted by the selection of a university geologist and gas-industry consultant to lead the review, dril...
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Feb.8.2013
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From Fracking to Cracking
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Fracking causes many public health and environmental problems and the last thing that Pennsylvanians need is another way for the oil and gas industry to capitalize on the Marcellus Shale at the exp...
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Jan.30.2013
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Matt Damon movie set to ignite fracking debate
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Source: RTCC A new Hollywood movie written by and starring Matt Damon is set to draw renewed attention to the fracking debate in the US. Promised Land is released in the States next week and focuse...
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Jan.4.2013
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Does Fracking Contaminate Drinking Water?
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today provided an update on its ongoing national study currently underway to better understand any potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinki...
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Dec.24.2012
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How Money in Politics Impacts Fracking
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In the 2012 election cycle, pro-fracking interests contributed a combined total of nearly $400,000 to candidates for state legislature and county executive in New York’s Southern Tier. Although inc...
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Dec.21.2012
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Colorado Oil And Gas Industry Under Pressure As Protests Mount
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Source: Huffingtonpost This used to be a land proud of its oil barons. Now the energy industry that has brought wealth and jobs across the interior West is prompting angry protests by citizens spor...
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Dec.18.2012
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Fracking shifts global energy balance
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Source: Phys North America’s shale oil and gas boom has shifted the balance in global energy markets, giving the US and Canada new leverage as exporters, despite the Middle East retaining a p...
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Dec.17.2012
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UK Lifts Suspension of Shale Gas Fracking
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Source: Treehugger As predicted when UK politicians struck a contentious deal on an energy bill, the UK government has now lifted a suspension of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for shale gas. I...
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Dec.17.2012
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Fracking Green Light Sends Shockwaves Across UK
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Source: Ecowatch Today the British government lifted its ban on fracking allowing companies to continue their exploration of shale gas reserves. Energy Secretary Edward Davey said the decision was ...
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Dec.14.2012
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